Gary Vaynerchuck Wants you to Invest in Memorabilia — Here’s What you Need to Know About Rare Cards and Grading

Everything from rampant fraud, strategies, rarity, and the arbitrary; from Pokémon to sports cards.

card owner: packfan15412 on blowoutforums.com. 1986–1987 Fleer Michael Jordan, one of the rarest cards because there are almost no cards with a perfect grade.

There is some really expensive cardboard out there. For almost everybody out there, save a few, it would be mind-numbing to think that they could be worth several millions of dollars.

For the uninitiated, it sounds maddening. To the initiated, it’s fairly arbitrary. To those who truly understand this world, people like Gary Vaynerchuck function like a hurricane crashing against an otherwise beautiful shoreline.

Gary Vaynerchuck’s voice is something of a train wreck. It’s loud, filled with spittle, but something you want to listen to even though you know you’re probably receiving a gross simplification of a complicated and niche topic.

However, every once in a while, his words may be touching a subject that’s highly interesting. Even when both his commentary and opinion are ungrounded, that is.

We’ll go over what he said, what is true, what is absolutely false, and what you need to know before you take the plunge into this world of outrageously priced, scientifically-graded cardboard.